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Yahoo slashes price of Verizon deal $350 mn after data breaches

Published: 21 Feb 2017 - 05:24 pm | Last Updated: 29 Nov 2021 - 06:10 pm
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AFP

New York: Yahoo slashed the price of the sale of its core Internet business to Verizon by $350 million following a pair of major data breaches at Yahoo, the two companies announced Tuesday.

Under the revised terms of the deal, Verizon's purchase the Yahoo assets will now be $4.48 billion. The two companies also will split the cost of third-party litigation and some government investigations related to the breaches, which affected more than 1.5 billion accounts.